The Sahel

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment she has made of the humanitarian situation in the Sahel region of West Africa.

Lynne Featherstone: Early harvest estimates across the Sahel are positive for 2013. However many people remain locked in a chronic state of food insecurity, exacerbated by conflict in Mali. The UK Government is committed to helping communities to become more resilient to this cycle of crises.

International Labour Organisation

Alison McGovern: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development when she last met the Director General of the International Labour Organisation.

Alan Duncan: I held a meeting with Guy Ryder, Director General of the International Labour Organization, on 12 September this year. We discussed how ILO and DFID can continue to work together at country level to deliver results on shared priorities such as decent work for all and social protection.

Education: Assessments

Graham Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what the ranked performance of pupils at maintained schools and sixth form colleges was at (a) GCSE and (b) A level in each local education authority in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Elizabeth Truss: holding answer 10 December 2012
	The 2011 School Performance Tables include a wide range of indicators for each maintained school and sixth form college and can be ranked by these indicators on the website:
	http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/
	The links on the right allow for schools to be selected, and the 'filters' option means that sixth form colleges only can be chosen. To rank by an indicator, click on the indicator heading.
	The indicators can also be downloaded from the departmental website, in a format that allows easy ranking, here:
	http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/download_data.html
	Definitions for each indicator are available from the following link:
	http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/performance/metadata.html
	Further information can be accessed by clicking the 'plus' next to the appropriate heading.
	The 2012 School Performance Tables at GCSE and A level will be published in late January 2013.

Pay

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials in his Department in each of the last two years.

Elizabeth Truss: The Department paid £1,250,000 for exceptional performance in 2010/11 and £1,500,000 for exceptional performance in 2011/12 (the higher amount is due to an increase in headcount from the opening of four new Agencies). The 2012/13 performance year concludes on 31 March 2013.
	The Department does not pay in-year bonuses for performance.

Pre-school Education

Jack Lopresti: To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps his Department is taking to help providers set-up new pre-schools.

Elizabeth Truss: The Government provides substantial funding to local authorities to enable them to meet their statutory duty to secure early education places for all three and four-year-olds. From September 2013 this programme will be extended to around 130,000 two-year-olds from lower income families. We have provided greater transparency and clarity on the funding available to secure early years provision to give providers the confidence to invest and build sustainable new provision.
	The Minister for Women and Equalities, my right hon. Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Maria Miller), also recently announced a £2 million grant fund to help new child care businesses to get off the ground. The Prime Minister launched a child care commission in June this year to look at how we can improve the availability and affordability of child care and reduce burdens on child care providers. We have been listening very closely to the views of front-line professionals, parents and others on these issues. We will be setting out next steps shortly.

Environment Protection

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the oral statement of 29 November 2012, Official Report, column 378, on energy policy, what the evidential basis is for the statement that the UK's low-carbon sector takes a £122 billion share of the global market.

Gregory Barker: The source for this data is the 2010-11 report on 'Low Carbon Environmental Goods and Services (LCEGS)' published in May 2012 by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. It is stated in section 4.2 that
	'UK LCEGS Sales in 2010/11 is £122.2bn'
	and Table 4 provides a breakdown of sales by sub-sector over the last three years.
	For further information see:
	http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/BISCore/business-sectors/docs/l/12-p143-low-carbon-environmental-goods-and-services-2010-11.pdf

Insulation: Housing

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the oral statement of 29 November 2012, Official Report, column 388, on energy policy, how many insulation measures were installed in each of the last 15 years for which data is available.

Gregory Barker: The following table shows the number of retro-fit installations of cavity wall, loft and solid wall insulation through Government schemes each year between April 2008 and April 2012. Historic figures for the number of properties with insulation measures installed dating back to 1976 are available in 'Energy Consumption in the United Kingdom' in tables 3.15a and 3.15b(1). The historic figures are not comparable with those below due to a different methodology employed for the new series which enables estimates on a quarterly basis.
	(1) This publication can be accessed from the following link:
	http://www.decc.gov.uk/media/viewfile.ashx?filetype=4&filepath=Statistics/publications/ecuk/4186-ecuk-domestic-2010.xls&minwidth=true
	
		
			 Thousand 
			 Measure installed between: Cavity wall insulation Loft insulation Solid wall insulation 
			 April 2008 and April 2009 560 660 10 
			 April 2009 and April 2010 590 1,420 20 
			 April 2010 and April 2011 470 980 10 
			 April 2011 and April 2012 520 1,130 30 
			 Source: Estimates of home insulation levels in Great Britain. See following link: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/energy_stats/en_effic_stats/home_ins_est.aspx

Public Appointments

Michael Weir: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many public appointments (a) regulated by and (b) not regulated by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments have been made by his Department since 2007; and in how many such cases the services of recruitment consultants were retained.

David Mundell: The Boundary Commission for Scotland is the only public body which comes under the remit of the Scotland Office. The Secretary of State for Scotland, the right hon. Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Michael Moore), has made two appointments and two reappointments to the Boundary Commission for Scotland since 2007. These appointments were regulated by the Office of the Commissioner for Public Appointments and no recruitment consultants were used.

Official Hospitality

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much her Department has spent for hospitality purposes on (a) Champagne, (b) wines, (c) spirits, (d) soft drinks, (e) flowers, (f) laundry, (g) porterage, (h) china, (i) cutlery and (j) venue hire since May 2010.

Michael Penning: Since May 2010, my Department has spent the following for hospitality purposes.
	
		
			  £ 
			 Champagne 0 
			 Wines/spirits and soft drinks 10,126 
			 Flowers 2,705 
			 Laundry 3,406 
			 Porterage 1,172 
			 China 1,536 
			 Cutlery 40 
			 Venue Hire 0

Grants

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport how much funding her Department has provided in grant in aid to each arm's length body for which she is responsible in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12; and how much such funding she expects to allocate to each body in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.

Edward Vaizey: holding answer 10 December 2012
	The grant in aid that the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has paid to its arm's length bodies in 2010-11 and 2011-12 and the amounts that have been allocated in the period 2012-13 through to 2014-15 is set out in the following table.
	
		
			  Grant in aid (£ million) 
			 Body 2010-11 final 2011-12 voted 2012-13 voted 2013-14 planned 2014-15 planned 
			 British Museum 46.343 56.051 45.378 44.735 44.59 
			 Natural History Museum 48.586 46.48 45.76 45.204 45.172 
			 Imperial War Museum 23.91 21.961 21.436 21.239 21.273 
			 National Gallery 28.201 26.744 26.32 25.98 25.911 
			 National Maritime Museum 19.002 17.258 16.848 16.693 16.723 
			 National Museums Liverpool 23.712 21.875 21.561 21.323 21.327 
			 National Portrait Gallery 7.577 7.398 7.277 7.183 7.172 
			 National Museum of Science and Industry 40.153 37.588 43.61 43.089 43.064 
			 Tate Gallery 54.729 45.105 34.912 25.037 33.441 
			 Victoria and Albert Museum 44.318 41.355 40.705 40.203 40.167 
			 Wallace Collection 4.212 2.983 2.946 2.918 2.922 
			 Museum of Science and Industry Manchester(3) 4.882 3.998 — — — 
			 Sir John Soane's Museum 1.169 1.13 1.111 1.096 1.094 
			 Horniman Museum 4.518 4.385 4.199 4.139 4.127 
			 Geffrye Museum 1.773 1.674 1.645 1.621 1.616 
			 Royal Armouries 8.389 7.901 7.773 7.673 7.662 
			 British Library 105.85 101.873 106.79 85,544 93.407 
			 Public Lending Right 7.451 7.230 7.094 6.979 6.969 
			 Museums. Libraries and Archives Council(1) 15.218 8.961 — — — 
			 Arts Council England(4) 438.52 393.602 473.75 472.85 458.87 
			 Sport England 121.39 98.366 100.49 91.968 85.671 
			 UK Sport 55.363 60.651 65.966 39.63 43.345 
			 United Kingdom Anti-Doping 6.372 6.344 6.498 6.142 5.852 
			 Sports Ground Safety Authority 0.98 1.197 1.176 1.158 1.142 
			 English Heritage 129.85 121.193 103.31 97.714 96.911 
		
	
	
		
			 Churches Conservation Trust 3.162 2.926 2.828 2.743 2.695 
			 Commission For Architecture and the Built Environment(1) 4.69 3.427 — — — 
			 National Heritage Memorial Fund 0 0 5 10 5 
			 The Royal Parks 17.094 17.383 18.019 15.868 15.324 
			 Royal Household(2) 17.094 15.71 — — — 
			 VisitBritain (including VisitEngland) 40.323 47.771 48.672 30.892 28.708 
			 UK Film Council(1) 45.563 1.1 — — — 
			 British Film Institute — 30.589 19.152 22.689 22.756 
			 Ofcom — — 101.95 86.7 17.2 
			 Welsh Fourth Channel Authority (S4C) 99.647 90 83 6.7 7 
			 National Lottery Commission 5.22 6.571 4.095 (5)— (5)— 
			 Gambling Commission 0.481 — — — — 
			 Olympic Delivery Authority 971.2 1,066.1 620.2 7.3 -163 
			 (1) Denotes bodies which are being abolished. (2) Royal Household funding passed to HM Treasury. (3) Funding passed to National Museum of Science and Industry. (4) Includes funding for the Museums and Arts programme, administration and capital funding; and funds for cultural education transferred to ACE from DFE via DCMS. (5 )Yearly budget. 
		
	
	These figures do not include any reductions announced in the autumn statement
	From 2013-14, S4C will receive additional funding from the BBC.
	Olympic Delivery Authority net capital receipts assumed in spending review for 2014-15.

Construction: Self-employed

Iain Wright: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will assess the implications for his policies of bogus self-employment schemes in the construction industry; what assessment he has made of the effect of such schemes on revenue to the Exchequer; if he will implement the recommendations of the report, The Great Payroll Scandal, published by the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians on 3 December 2012; and if he will make a statement.

David Gauke: The Government recognises false self-employment is a risk to income tax and national insurance contributions collection and is detrimental to workers' employment rights in construction and other industries. HMRC deploys compliance resources to address false self-employment in the construction industry and more widely.
	With reference to what assessment has been made, I refer the hon. Member to the answer given to the House on 12 November 2012, Official Report, column 4W.
	The Government has no current plans to implement the recommendations of the report.

Economic Situation

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the amount by which the Government will not meet its borrowing targets by 2015, if funds from the Bank of England and the auctioning of the 4G mobile spectrum were excluded.

Sajid Javid: The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts that the Government remains on course to meet the fiscal mandate in 2017-18, both including and excluding the effects of the APF cash transfers. The OBR has set out the impact of the asset purchase facility cash transfers on its fiscal forecasts. The OBR has certified the Government estimate that receipts from the sale of 4G spectrum will reduce borrowing by£3.5 billion in 2012-13 and have no effect in 2015.

Employment

Steve Rotheram: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the rate of job growth has been in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) Liverpool and (c) England in each year since 1997; and what estimate he has made of such growth in each of the next three financial years.

Sajid Javid: The Office for National Statistics (ONS) employment statistics for Liverpool and Liverpool, Walton are not available back to 1997. Table 1 shows growth in the employment level each year from the year to June 2005. Employment increased by 2.3% between the year to June 2011 and the year to June 2012 in Liverpool, and 16.4% in Liverpool, Walton. Estimates of employment at the constituency level are more volatile than estimates for larger geographic areas, reflecting the small sample size for survey respondents.
	Table 2 gives employment growth for England back to 1997. Employment increased by 2.0% between 2011Q3.and 2012Q3.
	Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for employment forecasts, which are only available at the UK level. Employment is projected to rise in every year of the OBR's December 2012 Economic and fiscal outlook. In the next three financial years employment in the UK is forecast to increase from 29.6 million in this financial year to 30 million in 2015-16
	
		
			 Table 1: Growth in employment level 
			 Percentage 
			  Liverpool Liverpool, Walton 
			 Year to June 2005 to Year to June 2006 -2.4 -53 
			 Year to June 2006 to Year to June 2007 5.6 9.0 
			 Year to June 2007 to Year to June 2008 0.1 4.9 
			 Year to June 2008 to Year to June 2009 -3.7 -8.4 
			 Year to June 2009 to Year to June 2010 2.0 8.3 
			 Year to June 2010 to Year to June 2011 -1.2 -6.2 
			 Year to June 2011 to Year to June 2012 2.3 16.4 
			 Source: ONS 
		
	
	
		
			 Table 2: Growth in employment level 
			 Percentage 
			  England 
			 1997Q3 to 1998Q3 1.3 
			 1998Q3 to 1999Q3 1.4 
			 1999Q3 to 2000Q3 1.2 
			 2000Q3 to 2001Q3 0.6 
			 2001Q3 to 2002Q3 0.6 
			 2002Q3 to 2003Q3 0.8 
			 2003Q3 to 2004Q3 1.0 
			 2004Q3 to 2005Q3 1.3 
			 2005Q3 to 2006Q3 0.7 
			 2006Q3 to 2007Q3 0.6 
			 2007Q3 to 2008Q3 0.5 
			 2008Q3 to 2009Q3 -1.7 
			 2009Q3 to 2010Q3 1.2 
			 2010Q3 to 2011Q3 -0.6 
			 2011Q3 to 2012Q3 2.0 
			 Source: ONS

Bus Services: South West

Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what recent estimate he has made of spending per head of population on bus transport in (a) Plymouth, (b) Devon, (c) Cornwall and (d) the South West; and what the national average of such spending is.

Norman Baker: The most recent data available for total public expenditure on transport is given in HM Treasury's Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2011/12. This reports that identifiable expenditure on local public transport per head in 2011/12 was £22 for the South West of England, and £56 for the whole of the UK. Equivalent data is not available below regional level.
	The “local public transport” PESA category includes bus expenditure but may also include expenditure on other transport modes. It does not, however, include the cost of the free bus travel concession for older and disabled people.
	Separately, data on local government bus expenditure is available from the Department for Communities and Local Government, at individual local authority level. The most recent figures available are for 2011/12 and show that spending per head on bus transport was £8 for Plymouth, £7 for Devon, £8 for Cornwall and £10 for the South West of England. A UK figure is not available.
	The local government figures include net current expenditure on support to operators for bus services and capital expenditure for ‘public passenger transport—bus’ but do not include expenditure on concessionary fares, home to school transport or public transport co-ordination (which may include bus-related expenditure). These figures will not be wholly consistent with the PESA data shown above as there is additional bus expenditure by central government (e.g. the Bus Service Operators' Grant) which cannot be disaggregated to local authority level.

High Speed 2 Railway Line

Cheryl Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what the (a) gross and (b) net estimated expenditures are for (i) the safeguarding zone and (ii) the voluntary purchase zone as part of the proposed compensation scheme for HS2.

Simon Burns: The proposed compensation schemes are currently out for consultation. The costs will depend on what scheme the Government adopts following consultation and the extent to which householders and others take up options open to them.

Railways: Broadband

Gordon Henderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will undertake a review of internet access and mobile telephone reception on the rail network.

Simon Burns: The Government has been working with the rail and telecommunications industries to maximise the quality of mobile communications for rail passengers across the national network.
	The emerging strategy will involve the installation of signal-enhancing equipment on-board trains while improving trackside coverage to reduce the number of areas where mobile coverage is weak or non-existent. Implementation would be through joint working between Network Rail, train and mobile network operators, rolling stock companies, Ofcom and the Office of Rail Regulation.
	The Government will continue to act in a co-ordinated manner and, if necessary, intervene to support industry to make rapid progress.

British Indian Ocean Territory

Jeremy Corbyn: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the answer of 8 November 2012, on British Indian Ocean Territory, whether he accepts the recent decision of the Information Commissioner that his Department is the relevant public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and environmental information regulations in respect of British Indian Ocean Territory.

Mark Simmonds: The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), accepts the Information Commissioner's recent decision whereby the Information Commissioner's Office accepts that the British Indian Ocean Territory is constitutionally separate and therefore not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (2000) or the Environmental Information Regulations (2004). However, the Secretary of State also accepts that British Indian Ocean Territory Administration information stored on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office systems in London is subject to the Freedom of Information Act and the Environment Information Regulations.

European Union

Brian Binley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent progress has been made on the audit of the (a) competences and (b) membership costs of the EU; and if he will make a statement.

David Lidington: The balance of competences review is on schedule. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond (Yorks) (Mr Hague), updated the House on 23 October 2012, Official Report, column 46WS, about the timetable and sequencing of reports over the next two years. Calls for evidence for all six reports in the first semester (concluding in summer 2013) have since been published and can be found through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website
	http://www.fco.gov.uk/eu/balance-of-competences
	We expect that evidence submitted to the review will provide information about the costs of different areas of EU action.

Communications Data Bill (Draft)

Cathy Jamieson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many representations her Department has received on the draft Communications Data Bill from (a) Scotland and (b) the UK.

James Brokenshire: In the Queen’s Speech on 9 May the Government announced its intention to bring forward a draft Bill for pre-legislative scrutiny, containing measures to maintain the ability of the law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access vital communications data under strict safeguards while ensuring that the use of communications data is compatible with the Government's approach to civil liberties.
	Since publication of the draft Bill the Home Office has received 239 pieces of correspondence from Members of Parliament and the public in the UK. We are unable to break this figure down further to parts of the UK.

ICT

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) computers, (b) mobile telephones, (c) BlackBerrys and (d) other pieces of IT equipment were lost or stolen from her Department in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12; and if she will make a statement.

James Brokenshire: The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), can confirm that information relating to lost and stolen laptops, mobiles and removable media can be found on the following link to the Home Office webpage:
	http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/about-us/transparency/lost-mobiles-laptops-media/?view=Standard&pubID=890533
	Information is recorded and published under calendar year and not financial year. Information on items lost and stolen for 2012 will be published in early 2013.

Abortion

Andrew Bingham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health 
	(1)  what plans he has to improve abortion counselling; and if he will make a statement;
	(2)  when he will publish his sexual health policy document; and whether it will contain plans for improving abortion counselling.

Anna Soubry: The Government considers the best way to meet the commitment to improve abortion counselling services for women is to look at wider issues on preventing unwanted and unplanned pregnancies and consider counselling requirements in this context. We will therefore set out our plans for improving abortion counselling in our sexual health policy document. We no longer plan to undertake a separate consultation on abortion counselling.

Care Homes: Leeds

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many care homes have been deemed as failing to meet standard 15 of the national minimum standards in (a) Leeds North West constituency and (b) the Leeds metropolitan area in each year for which figures are available.

Norman Lamb: Care homes were inspected against the National Minimum Standards (NMS) until 2010 under the previous regulatory regime, under the Care Standards Act (CSA) 2000. From 1 October 2010, providers of adult social care services, including care homes, were required to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) under the Health and Social Care Act (HSCA) 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010. At the same time, the NMS were replaced by the CQC's Essential Standards of Quality and Safety. NMS 15—Meals and Mealtimes—was replaced by Outcome 5 of the Essential Standards—Meeting nutritional needs.
	The CQC has provided the information in the tables. Table 1 shows every instance of a care home failing to meet NMS 15 under the CSA 2000 in the Leeds local authority area per fiscal year until 30 September 2010. Information is not available by parliamentary constituency area for this period.
	
		
			 Table 1: Leeds local authority area 
			 Fiscal year Instances (1)  of care homes failing to meet NMS 15 
			 2002-03 23 
			 2003-04 27 
			 2004-05 20 
			 2005-06 25 
			 2006-07 17 
			 2007-08 15 
			 2008-09 13 
			 2009-10 10 
			 2010-11(2) 1 
			 Total 151 
			 (1) These are instances of care homes failing to meet the NMS, not necessarily total numbers of homes. (2) Due to providers registering under the HSCA from 1 October 2010, this covers 1 April 2010 to 30 September 2010 only. Source: CQC Database, 7 December 2012 
		
	
	To comply with Regulation 14 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010 and meet Outcome 5—Meeting nutritional needs—of the Essential Standards, care providers must ensure that service users are protected from the risk of inadequate nutrition and dehydration. This is the regulation in the current legislation that aligns most closely with NMS 15.
	Table 2 shows every instance of non-compliance, from inspections that took place in each fiscal year, with Outcome 5 of the Essential Standards, for care home locations in Leeds local authority area, as at 7 December 2012 under the HSCA. We are informed by the CQC that it has not recorded any non-compliance against Outcome 5 at care home locations within the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency.
	
		
			 Table 2: Leeds local authority area 
			 Fiscal year Instances (1)  of care homes failing to meet Essential Standards Outcome 5 
			 2010-11(2) 1 
			 2011-12 4 
			 2012-13 1 
			 (1) These are instances of care homes failing to meet the Outcome, not necessarily total numbers of homes. (2) Due to providers registering under the HSCA from 1 October 2010, this covers 1 October 2010 to 31 March 2011 only. (3) Figures refer to services that are currently registered and those that may have since deregistered. Source: QC Database, 7 December 2012

Health Services: Older People

Chris Skidmore: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many over 65 year olds were admitted to hospital with (a) malnutrition, (b) dehydration and (c) bed sores in each of the last five years; and how many such patients resided at a care home or residential home.

Norman Lamb: The tables show a count of finished admission episodes for patients aged 65 years and over with a primary diagnosis of malnutrition, dehydration or bed sores, by admission source, 2007-08 to 2011-12.
	This is not a count of patients as the same patient may be admitted more than once in a financial year. Some patients who live in nursing homes or residential care may have their source of admission recorded as 'usual place of residence' but these cannot be separately identified.
	
		
			 Activity in English NHS hospitals and English NHS commissioned activity in the independent sector 
			 Malnutrition 
			 Source of admission 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 
			 All finished admission episodes (FAEs) 162 178 182 203 284 
			 Usual place of residence including no fixed abode 144 168 162 176 255 
			 NHS run nursing home, residential care home or group home 2 — — 2 — 
			 Local authority Part 3 residential accommodation: where care is provided (from 1996-97) — — — — 1 
			 Non-NHS (other-than Local Authority) run residential care home (from 1996-97) 1 — — 1 1 
			 Other 14 9 19 24 27 
			 Unknown 1 1 1 — — 
		
	
	
		
			 Dehydration 
			 Source of admission 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 
			 All finished admission episodes (FAEs) 6,943 7,355 7,889 8,680 8,417 
			 Usual place of residence including no fixed abode 6,321 6,611 7,118 7,876 7,717 
			 NHS run nursing home, residential care home or group home 43 55 47 43 34 
			 Local authority Part 3 residential accommodation: where care is provided (from 1996-97) 10 24 6 23 10 
			 Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run residential care home (from 1996-97) 110 132 117 117 124 
			 Other 450 529 596 610 528 
			 Unknown 9 4 5 11 4 
		
	
	
		
			 Bed sores 
			 Source of admission 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 
			 All finished admission episodes (FAEs) 1,345 1,407 1,514 1,572 1,594 
			 Usual place of residence including no fixed abode 1,131 1,174 1,224 1,293 1,328 
			 NHS run nursing home, residential care home or group home 7 6 10 11 4 
			 Local authority Part 3 residential accommodation: where care is provided (from 1996-97) 3 3 2 5 6 
			 Non-NHS (other than Local Authority) run residential care home (from 1996-97) 24 16 21 17 20 
			 Other 172 208 255 245 234 
			 Unknown 8 — 2 1 2

Bill of Rights Commission

Charlie Elphicke: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what meetings he has had with (a) the Chairman and (b) any other members of the Commission on a Bill of Rights since 23 April 2012; who attended any such meeting; whether the business of the Commission was discussed at any such meeting; and whether a record of what was said at any such meeting was made.

Nicholas Clegg: I have had no further meetings with the Chairman of the Commission since 23 April 2012. I have had two meetings with members of the Commission in that period.
	On 29 May 2012 I had a meeting with Philippe Sands QC, at which the work of the Commission was discussed. I also discussed the work of the Commission with Philippe Sands QC on a telephone call on 12 November 2012.
	On 23 July 2012 I had a meeting with Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC. This meeting was not to discuss the work of the Commission on a Bill of Rights.
	Members of my office attended these meetings and no official records were kept of these conversations.

Regional Planning and Development

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister how many staff in his Department are working on the Cities Policy Unit.

Nicholas Clegg: The Cities Unit is part of the Cabinet Office. As part of the transparency agenda, the Cabinet Office publishes an organogram and structure charts that provide information on staffing in the Cabinet Office and its Units. These are available at:
	http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/structure-charts-cabinet-office
	and on
	www.data.gov.uk

Debt Collection

Julian Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what progress he is making on the Coalition Agreement commitment to (a) provide more protection against unreasonable charging orders, (b) ensure that courts have the power to insist that repossession is always a last resort and (c) ban orders for sale on unsecured debts of less than £25,000.

Helen Grant: Judicial discretion exists in all applications for charging orders and orders for sale and provides the necessary protection against unreasonable applications. As a result of full public consultation it was considered necessary to introduce a threshold for orders for sale and a £1,000 threshold on unsecured Consumer Credit Act debts was deemed to be the most appropriate level. This should provide adequate protection against unreasonable charging orders without weakening the civil justice system. The Order for Sale regulations have been laid before Parliament as an affirmative Statutory Instrument. The Commons debate has been scheduled for 10 January.
	The pre-action protocol for possession claims based on mortgage or home purchase plans arrears in respect of residential property has been amended and strengthened to ensure that courts have the power to insist that repossession is always a last resort.

Employment Agencies

Catherine McKinnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what his policy is on the use of offshore employment companies in the supply of public sector workers in his Department and its associated public bodies.

Jeremy Wright: The Ministry of Justice does not have a specific policy in place regarding the use of offshore employment companies in the Ministry and its associated public bodies. However, there are a number of mandatory contracts in place with UK registered organisations for the provision of temporary labour.
	None of these organisations supplies contractors from companies that are registered outside of the UK.

ICT

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many (a) computers, (b) mobile telephones, (c) BlackBerrys and (d) other pieces of IT equipment were lost or stolen from his Department in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement.

Helen Grant: Details of (a) computers, (b) mobile phones, (c) BlackBerrys and (d) other pieces of IT equipment lost or stolen from the Ministry of Justice in (i) 2010-11 and (ii) 2011-12 are supplied in the following table. Information on the number of (b) mobile telephones lost or stolen is not held centrally, and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			 IT equipment lost/stolen 2010-11 2011-12 
			 (a) Computers (PCs and laptops) 84 55 
			 (b) Mobile telephones (1)— (1)— 
			 (c) BlackBerrys 56 28 
			 (d) Other pieces of IT equipment (RSA/RAS secure :ID tokens, Becrypt encryption tokens and Removable Media) 183 184 
			 (1) Not held centrally. 
		
	
	All Ministry of Justice laptops and BlackBerrys are encrypted and protected with a complex password; and all BlackBerrys that are registered as lost or stolen are blocked remotely, making it impossible for them to be used. The Ministry also implements security incident management procedures to ensure that the impacts of incidents are risk managed and investigations are undertaken to seek, where possible, to retrieve lost/stolen assets.
	The Ministry adopts Government security policy framework requirements to securely protect its assets.

Planning Permission: Judicial Review

Hilary Benn: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many applications for permission to apply for judicial review of a planning decision were made in each of the last 10 years; how many of those were granted; and how many subsequent applications for judicial review determined by the court were (a) allowed, (b) dismissed and (c) withdrawn.

Helen Grant: The following tables give figures for judicial review relating to planning decisions that were received, granted permission and how many of those were allowed, dismissed or withdrawn in the last 10 years.
	
		
			 Type Topic 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 
			 Applications received in the Administrative Court Office         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 112 116 121 142 119 122 119 
			          
			 Applications granted permission to proceed to a full hearing (at initial permission and renewal stage)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 51 56 68 63 47 54 49 
			          
			 Substantive hearings allowed         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 10 19 29 17 12 11 10 
			          
			 Substantive hearings dismissed         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 19 13 32 17 14 12 12 
			          
			 Substantive hearings withdrawn         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 13 11 18 10 2 0 0 
			          
		
	
	
		
			 Cases determined by Court (including cases allowed, dismissed and cases determined by consent without a substantive hearing)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 64 69 98 71 72 67 66 
			          
			 Cases withdrawn (without a substantive hearing)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 8 23 46 39 27 20 6 
		
	
	
		
			 Type Topic 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 
			 Applications received in the Administrative Court Office         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 140 142 151 184 165 148 191 
			          
			 Applications granted permission to proceed to a full hearing (at initial permission and renewal stage)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 44 50 51 67 64 46 61 
			          
			 Substantive hearings allowed         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 11 7 17 14 15 17 6 
			          
			 Substantive hearings dismissed         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 10 7 6 13 16 11 21 
			          
			 Substantive hearings withdrawn         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 
			          
			 Cases determined by Court (including cases allowed, dismissed and cases determined by consent without a substantive hearing)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 76 44 77 111 116 87 122 
			          
			 Cases withdrawn (without a substantive hearing)         
			 Judicial Review Civil Town and Country Planning 23 15 26 34 23 26 19

Prisoners: Kent

Gareth Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many prisoners were held in Kent in each of the last 10 years; and how many such prisoners did not serve their full custodial sentence.

Jeremy Wright: All offenders serving a determinate sentence serve part of their sentence in custody and part on licence in the community.
	If the sentence was imposed under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (for offences committed on or after 4 April 2005), the first half of the sentence is served in custody and the second half is served on release on licence in the community.
	If the sentence was imposed under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and is four years or longer, release is determined on the basis of risk by the Parole Board between the halfway and two-thirds point of the sentence. The offender is on licence from the point at which he is released until the three quarter point of sentence and then at risk for the final quarter. If a 1991 Act sentence is less than four years, the offender will be released at the halfway point, on licence to three quarter point and then at risk for the final quarter.
	We do not hold figures for the number of prisoners held in Kent over the last ten years, as the data we collect is a snapshot of the prison population. However, the following table provides information on the prison population in Kent prison establishments as of 30 June of each year from 2003 to 2012.
	
		
			 Population in Kent prisons (1)  as at 30 June of each year 2003 - 12 
			  Total 
			 2003 3,864 
			 2004 3,881 
			 2005 4,115 
			 2006 4,057 
		
	
	
		
			 2007 4,107 
			 2008 3,914 
			 2009 4,364 
			 2010 4,913 
			 2011 4,772 
			 2012 4,833 
			 (1) In1udes:HMPs/YOIs Blantyre House, Canterbury, Cookham Wood, Dover. Elmley, East Sutton Park. Maidstone, Rochester, Standford Hill and Swaleside. 
		
	
	These figures have been drawn from administrative IT systems which, as with any large scale recording system, are subject to possible errors with data entry and processing.

Rangers Football Club: Taxation

Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will take steps to ensure that an independent inquiry is held into the (a) conduct of and (b) time taken to conclude the tax tribunal between HM Revenue and Customs and the former Rangers Football Club.

Helen Grant: Appeals against decisions made by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs relating to tax are heard by the first-tier tribunal (Tax), administered by Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service.
	It is not our intention to establish an independent inquiry into the conduct of the tribunal or the time taken to conclude proceedings between Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the former Rangers Football Club. These are matters for the independent Judiciary. Any complaints about the conduct of the tribunal and the time taken for the judicial process to conclude should be referred to the chamber president of the first-tier tribunal (Tax) as set out in the Judicial Complaints (Tribunals) Rules (No 2) 2008.

Senior Civil Servants

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many and what proportion of senior civil servants have left (a) his Department and (b) each of the public bodies for which he is responsible since May 2010; what the rate of turnover of senior civil servants has been in (i) his Department and (ii) each such body since May 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Jeremy Wright: The information is as follows:
	(a) The number of senior civil servants (SCS) that have left the Ministry of Justice (HQ, HM Courts and Tribunals Service, Office of the Public Guardian and National Offender Management Service) between 1 May 2010 and 31 October 2012 and the turnover rate is shown in the following table:
	
		
			  Number of SCS leavers between 1 May 2010 and 31 October 2012 (full-time equivalent) Turnover rate of SCS between 1 May 2010 and 31 October 2012 (Percentage) 
			 Ministry of Justice HQ 64.9 17.7 
		
	
	
		
			 Office of the Public Guardian 0 0 
			 HM Courts and Tribunals Service 26 21.3 
			 National Offender Management Service 22 15.5 
		
	
	Please note that NOMS operates on a different IT HR management system. Therefore a small number of senior civil servants may have been counted as leaving MOJ HQ, OPG and HMCTS but transferred to NOMS.
	None of the NOMS SCS leavers shown in this table has transferred to MOJ HQ, OPG and HMCTS.
	(b) Employees of the Ministry's public bodies are not generally civil servants.
	Workforce information is published for the Department and its arms’ length bodies from March 2011 and can be found on the transparency pages of the Department's website:
	http://www.justice.gov.uk/information-access-rights/transparency-data/workforce-management-info

Surveys

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice if he will place in the Library a copy of the results of his Department's most recent staff survey; which organisation carried out the survey; and what the cost of the survey was.

Jeremy Wright: Civil Service People Survey (CSPS) procured under a single contract across the civil service by the Cabinet Office. The contract is currently held by ORC International.
	The MOJ results from the 2012 CSPS will be published on the Ministry of Justice website at the end of January 2013 and a copy will be placed in the Library at the same time.
	The MOJ share of the 2011 costs of the CSPS was £100,501 (excluding VAT). As work on the 2012 CSPS is not yet completed, the full costs incurred are not yet known.

Work Capability Assessment: Appeals

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice what proportion of appeals to work capability assessments by (a) all appellants, (b) incapacity benefit reassessment claimants and (c) new employment and support allowance claimants were upheld in (i) each month since May 2010, (ii) 2010, (iii) 2011 and (iv) 2012 to date.

Helen Grant: Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) hears appeals against Department for Work and Pensions decisions on entitlement to employment and support allowance (ESA) (decisions in which the work capability assessment is a key factor) rather than appeals against work capability assessment decisions themselves.
	The following table shows the proportion of appeals against entitlement to employment and support allowance (ESA) that were upheld in each month from May 2010 to June 2012 (the latest date for which information is available). The information is broken down as follows:
	(a) Total number of appeals relating to ESA decision (incapacity benefit reassessment (IBR) and ESA);
	(b) IBR appeals only;
	(c) ESA appeals only.
	The first incapacity benefit reassessment appeals were heard by the Social Security and Child Support tribunal in February 2011.
	
		
			 Appeals found in favour of the appellant 
			 Percentage 
			  (a) All Appellants (incapacity benefit reassessment and ESA) (b) Incapacity benefit reassessment (c) ESA 
			 May 2010 40 n/a 40 
			 June 2010 39 n/a 39 
			 July 2010 37 n/a 37 
			 August 2010 37 n/a 37 
			 September 2010 38 n/a 38 
			 October 2010 37 n/a 37 
			 November 2010 37 n/a 37 
			 December 2010 36 n/a 36 
			 January 2011 36 n/a 36 
			 February 2011 38 25 38 
			 March 2011 40 (1)9 39 
			 April 2011 39 (1)0 38 
			 May 2011 38 25 38 
			 June 2011 38 32 38 
			 July 2011 38 43 38 
			 August 2011 38 50 38 
			 September 2011 38 29 38 
			 October 2011 39 30 39 
			 November 2011 40 31 39 
			 December 2011 39 39 39 
			 January 2012 41 41 41 
			 February 2012 42 42 42 
			 March 2012 43 44 44 
			 April 2012 42 42 42 
			 May 2012 42 45 43 
			 June 2012 40 46 42 
			 (1) These low percentages are due to the small numbers of cases heard in these months, 23 appeals in March 2011 and 10 appeals in April 2011. Source: The data is taken from management information.

Migration

Jonathan Edwards: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many people (a) have moved residence to Wales from Scotland, England and Northern Ireland and (b) have moved residence from Wales to Scotland, England and Northern Ireland in each of the last five years.

Nick Hurd: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.
	Letter from Glen Watson, dated December 2012
	.
	The tables show the estimated number of people who have moved residence to Wales from Scotland, England and Northern Ireland; and from Wales to Scotland, England and Northern Ireland for the years 2007-2011. This is the latest year for which internal migration data is available.
	The estimates are produced using a combination of data from the National Health Service Central Register, Patient Register Data System and Higher Education Statistics Agency. A detailed description of the methodology used to create internal migration estimates is available at:
	http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/population-and-migration/estimating-internal-migration-customer-guidance-notes.pdf
	
		
			 Internal migration estimates between Wales and other UK countries for the years ending June 2007 to June 2011 
			 Counts 
			  Flows from Wales, origin Wales 
			 Destination 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 
			 England 53,623 52,427 53,467 51,871 52,620 
			 Northern Ireland 483 479 400 473 418 
			 Scotland 1,772 1,908 1,703 1,648 1,551 
		
	
	
		
			 Counts 
			  F lows to Wales , destination Wales 
			 Origin 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 
			 England 60,763 57,732 54,032 54,637 55,285 
			 Northern Ireland 417 384 353 364 370 
			 Scotland 1,588 1,492 1,505 1,527 1,467 
			 Sources: Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

Olympic Games 2012

Tessa Jowell: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office 
	(1)  what steps his Department is taking to safeguard the legacy of the London 2012 Olympics in the policy areas for which he is responsible; and what budget his Department has allocated for that purpose;
	(2)  what the membership is of the Olympic legacy committees managed by the cross-departmental unit in his Department.

Nick Hurd: The Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Unit, in the Cabinet Office but jointly staffed by the Mayor of London's team, is responsible for the coordination of the Olympics and Paralympics legacy of London 2012, through the Cabinet Committee for Olympic and Paralympic Legacy and through support of Lord Coe in his role as Legacy Ambassador. The membership of all Cabinet Committees is published on the Cabinet Office website:
	www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
	The Office for Civil Society and the Mayor of London's team work with the Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Unit in the delivery of the volunteering legacy from the games. The Join In programme was directly inspired by the London 2012 games. Join In has received £2.1 million for the delivery of the summer 2012 event and is receiving additional funding to deliver their proposition in 2013. In addition, the Legacy initiatives also link to a number of existing projects with distinct budgets.
	Separately, as part of their remit to improve the delivery of major projects across central Government, the Major Projects Authority is also working to learn lessons from the preparation and staging of the Games. Ownership of the ODA's and LOCOG's Learning Legacy website, which contains lessons from the successful London 2012 Construction programme, has already transferred over to MPA:
	http://learninglegacy.independent.gov.uk/

Disability Living Allowance

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether his proposed cap on benefits will apply to a household comprising two parents on benefit plus an adult child in receipt of disability living allowance; and if he will make a statement.

Mark Hoban: When assessing whether the benefit cap will apply, the Department will apply certain exemptions according to the published rules. For the purposes of the benefit cap, a household or family unit refers to the benefit claimant, their partner (if they have one) and any child or qualifying young person for whom that adult or couple are treated as responsible when working out their housing benefit. It is possible, therefore, that in the example quoted, there may be more than one household unit for the purpose of assessing whether the cap will apply. Where there were two household units, the unit compromising of parents receiving working age benefits could be capped. However, the second benefit unit, which compromises the DLA recipient, would not be subject to the cap.

Employment Schemes

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether any organisations offering mandatory work activity placements have withdrawn from the scheme following his announcement that recipients of employment and support allowance will now be referred to it.

Mark Hoban: Employment support allowance claimants are not referred to Mandatory Work Activity Placements —it is exclusively for jobseeker's allowance claimants.

Housing Benefit

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 
	(1)  pursuant to the statement by the Minister of State for Pensions of 6 December 2012, Official Report, columns 1030-2, on benefits up-rating 2013-14, when he plans to announce which areas will receive funding from the £140 million set aside for areas where rent increases are highest or there is a shortage of affordable housing;
	(2)  how he plans to allocate the £140 million set aside for areas where rent increases are highest or there is a shortage of affordable housing; and if he will make a statement;
	(3)  pursuant to the statement by the Minister of State for Pensions of 6 December 2012, Official Report, columns 1030-2, on benefits up-rating 2013-14, what (a) data and (b) criteria he will use to identify areas with a shortage of affordable housing to determine eligibility for support from the £140 million set aside for areas where rent increases are highest or there is a shortage of affordable housing;
	(4)  what (a) data and (b) criteria he will use to identify areas with the highest rent increases where the cap on local housing allowance uprating will not be applied.

Steve Webb: In 2014-15 and 2015-16, increases to local housing allowance rates will be capped at 1%, in line with increases in other benefits. We have set aside 30% of the forecast savings from this measure—£45 million in 2014-15 and £95 million in 2015-16 to target further help on people most affected.
	Our intention is that this funding will be used to increase the local housing allowance rates by more than 1% in areas where rent increases are causing a shortage of affordable accommodation.
	This funding will be available from 2014-15 and we will of course consider the available evidence, including evidence collected by the Rent Officer, to decide how it is targeted.
	Final details on the allocation of this funding will be made available in due course, to both enable us to consider the latest evidence but to also give claimants and landlords time to plan.
	In 2013-14 local housing allowance rates will be uprated as planned, and are now published on the websites of Valuation Officer Agency, Rent Officers Wales and Rent Service Scotland.

Occupational Pensions

Gregg McClymont: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what assessment he has made of the effect on low-paid women of excluding all those earning less than £9,250 from workplace pensions.

Steve Webb: We estimate that there are 11 million workers eligible for automatic enrolment into a workplace pension of whom 37% are women.
	Raising the value of the earnings threshold at which individuals become eligible for automatic enrolment, from £8,105 to £9,205 would exclude around 340,000 individuals, of whom 260,000 are women.
	Anyone who is not automatically enrolled because of an increase in the earnings threshold will retain the right to opt in. If they earn above the lower limit of the qualifying earnings band, which currently stands at £5,564, they will also get an employer contribution. Employers are required to provide information about these opt in rights to individuals.

Partnerships: Universal Credit

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions whether each partner in a business partnership whose household claims universal credit will be required to complete a self-certification form each month, including in it the total receipts and payments of the business for the previous calendar month.

Mark Hoban: Each individual, including those in business partnerships, who wants to claim universal credit and has self-employed earnings, will be required to report their individual earnings to the DWP on a monthly basis.
	In order to calculate a claimant's universal credit award accurately the DWP need to know what someone is earning each month. Monthly reporting allows universal credit to be adjusted on a monthly basis, which will ensure that claimants whose income from self-employment falls do not have to wait several months for a rise in their universal credit.

PAYE

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on what date he expects to have an operational system integrating the state pension with the PAYE real time information system.

Steve Webb: DWP are looking at how the PAYE real time data can be used to support state pension and pensions credit claim processing as part of the universal credit changes for pension age customers due to be implemented after October 2014.
	In the longer term, as part of the Single Tier State Pension project we will be looking at how we can use the PAYE real time information for the processing of state pension. Plans are to introduce the new single tier in the next Parliament.

Social Security Benefits

Tom Greatrex: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many employment and support allowance and incapacity benefit reassessments were audited through the quality assurance framework (a) in total and (b) as a proportion of the total number of assessments carried out in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012 to date.

Mark Hoban: Following is a breakdown of the number of employment and support allowance (ESA) and incapacity benefit reassessment (IBR) decisions decided involving a medical assessment and also the number of quality assessment framework checks. This data comes from DMACR (decision making and appeals data recorder) used by all decision makers within benefit centres dealing with ESA and IBR. The percentage figure is for illustration purposes only as the checks performed may not necessarily be on decisions in the same time period.
	For ESA decisions, for the period October 2011 to March 2012 (both dates inclusive) we completed 281,367 decisions and performed a total of 3,680 quality assessment framework (QAF) checks. This equates to a 1.31% check rate. For the period April 2012 to November 2012 (both dates inclusive) we completed 939,201 decisions and performed a total of 6,775 checks. This is a checking rate of 0.72%. As a total, for the period October 2011 to November 2012 we completed 1,220,568 decisions and performed 10,455 checks which is a checking rate of 0.86%.
	For IBR decisions, for the period October 2011 to March 2012 (both dates inclusive) we completed 268,439 decisions and performed a total of 1,943 checks, a rate of 0.72%. For the period April 2012 to November 2012 (both dates inclusive) we completed 744,496 decisions and performed 3,194 checks equating to a checking rate of 0.43%. As a total we completed 1,012,935 decisions and performed 5,137 checks, a rate of 0.51%.
	Decision data is only stored for 14 months so we cannot provide data from earlier than October 2011.

Social Security Benefits: Kingston upon Hull

Diana Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) people and (b) households in Kingston upon Hull North constituency receive one or more working age benefit; and how many (i) men and (ii) women in Kingston upon Hull North constituency receive each type of state benefit.

Mark Hoban: The total number of households within the Kingston upon Hull North parliamentary constituency claiming one or more working age benefit on 1 November 2011 is 11,120.
	Statistics on the number of people in Kingston upon Hull North constituency who receive one or more working age benefit; and how many (i) men and (ii) women in Kingston upon Hull North constituency receive each type of state benefit can be found in the client group for all ages at:
	http://83.244.183.180/100pc/stgp/tabtool_stgp.html
	Guidance for users can be found at:
	http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/tabtools/guidance.pdf
	The number of housing benefit recipients in Kingston upon Hull North constituency can be found at:
	http://83.244.183.193/hb_parlc/
	Statistics on the number of council tax benefit recipients in Kingston upon Hull North constituency is available via a one-off exercise that was carried out on the January 2011 data to provide a parliamentary constituency breakdown. Results can be found at:
	http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/hb_ctb/hb_ctb_parlc_jan11.xls
	Notes:
	1. Data is rounded to the nearest 10.
	2. This household level data uses experimental data which is unpublished and does not form part of the regular official statistics outputs that are released by the Department in accordance with the UK Statistics Authority's Code of Practice so should be treated with caution.
	3. Figures comprise DWP working-age benefits on the working age client group: JSA, ESA, IB/SDA, IS, DLA, CA, BB, WB.
	4. November 2011 is the latest data available.
	5. A household is defined as a claimant, their partner and any children they are responsible for and who live with them.

Anti-Semitism

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent meetings have been held of the higher education sub-group of the cross-government working group on anti-Semitism; which officials at each civil service grade attended each such meeting; what matters were discussed at each such meeting; what further meetings are planned; and if he will make a statement. [R]

David Willetts: The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' (BIS) Anti-Semitism and Higher Education Group last met in November 2009. At this meeting a ministerial private secretary, the director for higher education policy and a policy official (higher executive officer) were present.
	The meeting included updates from members of the group on their wider work on equality and diversity, including tackling anti-Semitism, and on the guidance for students, ‘A Student's Guide to Anti-Semitism on Campus’, produced by the Union of Jewish Students and the Community Security Trust.
	The work of the group has resulted in agreement to a number of practical actions which have been taken forward by HE stakeholders and the Jewish community. For instance a project on examining religion and belief in higher education and the experiences of students and staff, further practical guidance on academic freedom and hate speech from Universities UK to the sector and guidance on external speakers from the National Union of Students tailored to the needs of students' unions. The NUS also continues to offer training to students' unions on tackling hate speech, funded by BIS. The Equality Challenge Unit is also developing additional practical guidance for institutions on promoting tolerance on campus and dealing with external speakers.
	In light of this activity and as significant work has been under way in the sector on tackling intolerance in HE the Government agreed with the Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism that BIS would suspend the BIS Anti-Semitism and HE Group unless and until significant new problems of anti-Semitism presented themselves. BIS continues to be a committed member of the wider Cross-Government Working Group on Anti-Semitism.

Apprentices: Southend on Sea

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many apprenticeship places in Southend West constituency there were in (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012 to date.

Matthew Hancock: Table 1 shows the number of Apprenticeship programme starts in (a) Southend West parliamentary constituency, (b) Southend on Sea and Essex local education authorities by Level. Final data are shown for the 2009/10 and 2010/11 academic years and provisional data are shown for the 2011/12 academic year.
	We publish Apprenticeship starts at region, local education authority and parliamentary constituency levels of geography, therefore data for Southend borough council is not presented.
	Provisional data for the 2011/12 academic year provide an early view of performance and will change as further data returns are received from further education colleges and providers. They should not be directly compared with final year data from previous years. Figures for 2011/12 will be finalised in January 2013.
	
		
			 Table 1: Apprenticeship programme starts by geography, 2009/10 to 2011/12 (provisional) 
			   Final Provisional 
			  Level 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 
			 Southend West Constituency Intermediate 240 360 390 
			  Advanced 60 160 190 
			  Higher — — — 
			  Total 300 520 580 
			      
			 Southend on Sea Local Education Authority Intermediate 500 780 790 
			  Advanced 140 380 370 
			  Higher — — — 
			  Total 640 1,150 1,170 
			      
			 Essex Local Education Authority Intermediate 4,770 7,560 7,510 
			  Advanced 1,620 3,350 4,020 
			  Higher 20 20 70 
			  Total 6,410 10,930 11,590 
			 Notes: 1. All figures are rounded to the nearest 10. 2. Geographic breakdowns are based upon the home postcode of the learner. 3. Figures are based on the geographic boundaries as of May 2010. 4. Provisional data for 2011/12 should not be directly compared with data for earlier years. Source: Individualised Learner Record 
		
	
	Apprenticeships are demand led and rely on employers to offer suitable job opportunities. It is therefore difficult to predict the number of apprenticeship places for the next five years.
	Information on the number of Apprenticeship starts by Geography is published in a supplementary table to a quarterly Statistical First Release (SFR). The latest SFR was published on 11 October 2012:
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_current
	http://www.thedataservice.org.uk/statistics/statisticalfirstrelease/sfr_supplementary_tables/Apprenticeship_sfr_supplementary_tables/

Business: Research

Steve Rotheram: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what steps he is taking to encourage research and development in businesses in (a) Liverpool, Walton constituency, (b) Liverpool and (c) England.

David Willetts: holding answer 10 December 2012
	The Government are encouraging research and development in businesses across the UK.
	The Technology Strategy Board is the Government's prime channel for supporting business-led technology innovation. It delivers a range of programmes in support of businesses undertaking research and development including Collaborative R and D, Smart and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships. Businesses supported range from pre start-up, start-up and early stage micro businesses, to large multi-nationals.
	The Technology Strategy Board also provides opportunities for innovative businesses through the growing network of Catapult centres.
	Since 2010 the Technology Strategy Board has provided £893.5 million in support for businesses across the UK, including £13 million awarded to businesses in Liverpool. Unfortunately this information is not held at parliamentary constituency level.
	The Government also provides R and D tax credits to encourage business investment in R and D directed towards achieving an advance in science or technology. Since R and D tax credit schemes were launched in 2000-01, more than 74,000 claims have been made and over £7 billion of relief has been claimed.

Commonwealth Games: India

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 
	(1)  what recent communications his Department has had with (a) Prasar Bharati, the Indian state broadcaster, (b) the Indian Department of Information and Broadcasting and (c) the Commonwealth Games Federation, regarding payment of the UK company SIS, which broadcast the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi;
	(2)  what communication his Department has had with the Indian government, regarding payment of the UK company SIS, which broadcast the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi;
	(3)  what representations his Department plans to make regarding payment of the UK company SIS, which broadcast the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi;
	(4)  what steps his Department is taking to resolve the issue of UK companies who have not been paid for their work on broadcasting the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in 2010; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon: BIS officials have raised this issue regularly with the Indian authorities, including at ministerial level, and also with other countries whose companies have also been affected; at ministerial level, it was raised most recently during the visit to the UK by the Indian Commerce Minister in April 2012.
	There have been regular discussions with both Prasar Bharati and the Department of Information and Broadcasting who have indicated that a final decision on this issue will not be made until investigations by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are complete. They will consider what further action to take after judicial review of the CBI's report has been completed, which it is hoped will be soon.
	Decisions on outstanding payments will only be made after judicial proceedings concerning allegations of corruption are completed. Officials at the British high commission in Delhi will continue to raise the issue when such interventions are judged to be most effective, in close consultation with the companies affected.

Higher Education: Finance

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding the Higher Education Funding Council allocated for (a) widening participation in higher education, (b) the costs of being based in London, (c) the teaching of foreign languages and (d) capital investment in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.

David Willetts: The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have confirmed their funding allocations provided in the following tables, in the years 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 for the four categories requested.
	
		
			 (a) Widening participation in higher education funding 
			 £ million 
			  AY 2010/11 AY 2011/12 AY 2012/13 
			 Recurrent funding    
			 Widening participation funding 143.5 141.6 140.6 
			 Improving retention funding 229.2 226.5 225.0 
			     
			 Widening participation special funding    
			 Aimhigher funding (inc. summer schools) 30.5 — — 
			 Lifelong Learning Networks funding (inc additional student numbers) 3.2 — — 
			 Other special programmes (e.g. Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA); retention programme with Paul Hamlyn; disability projects) 0.7 0.6 0.6 
		
	
	
		
			 (b) The costs of being based in London 
			 £ million 
			  AY 2010/11 AY 2011/12 AY 2012/13 
			 Recurrent research funding (London extra costs and elements of QR charity support funding and RDP supervision funding) 44.5 44.4 44.9 
			 Recurrent teaching funding 76.4 72,2 73.1 
			 Source: Final sector grant tables for 2010-11 (October) 2011-12 (October) and 2012-13 (July) for teaching funding (excluding widening participation/improving retention) 
		
	
	
		
			 (c) The costs of teaching foreign languages 
			 £ million 
			  AY 2010/11 AY 2011/12 AY 2012/13 
			 Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) notional teaching funding A little under 100 A little under 100 65.0 
			 ERASMUS fee compensation 9.3 10.1 10.7 
			 Routes into Languages 0.5 1.4 1.0 
			     
			 Language-based Area Studies 2.3 1.1 0.2 
			 Notes: 1. Teaching funding is only notional as HEFCE do not calculate funding at this level. The bulk of this is allocated through its mainstream teaching grant method, but there will also be small sums associated with modern language students in other allocations such as for part-time undergraduates, intensive courses (mainly PGT) and widening participation. 2. Most of the Erasmus fee compensation will relate to students studying a modern foreign language, but this is not necessarily true in all cases. 3. Routes into Languages and LBAS are provided to support MFL, rather than the ‘teaching of MFL’. 4. Generally HEFCE funds on an academic year basis and allocations are shown by AY unless the BIS allocation ties it to a financial year. 
		
	
	
		
			 (d) Capital funding to English HEIs 
			 Financial Year £ million 
			 2010-11 455.0 
			 2011-12 243.2 
			 2012-13 182.1 
		
	
	The Government's funding reforms mean that from academic year 2012/13 less funding for teaching flows through HEFCE grant and more through higher fees backed by government supported loans. These reforms mean that in practice more funding may be available for widening participation and fair access and for the teaching of subjects like Modern Foreign Languages.
	The new funding arrangements will see significant new spending on widening access to higher education made by Government, the Council and institutions. There are three main elements to the available funding. Government funding for the National Scholarship Programme will reach £150 million a year in 2014/15; higher education institutions have estimated they will spend £672 million on access through their access agreements by 2016/17; this is in addition to the figures shown above for HEFCE grant funding; HEFCE have allocated £140 million in 2012/13 in the widening participation part of the teaching grant, plus the wider teaching enhancement and student success allocation for improving retention of students of £225 million.
	Modern Foreign Languages fall into the HEFCE price group C. The notional basic rate of teaching funding for full-time undergraduates undertaking subjects in that price group is forecast to rise from £6,801 in 2011-12 to up to £9,000 in 2012-13.

Manufacturing Industries

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent steps he has taken to support British manufacturing industry; what recent discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department have had with the Confederation of British Industry on this matter; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon: This Government has made a commitment to manufacturing which we see as an essential building block of a more resilient, innovative economy. The Government works closely with manufacturers and their supply chains, and is taking steps to strengthen and grow modern manufacturing in the UK by encouraging innovation, business investment, technology commercialisation, skills and exports. There is a focus on advanced manufacturing in the Government's Industrial Strategy announced on 11 September.
	In his autumn statement on 5 December 2012, Official Report, columns 871-82, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced a number of measures which will benefit manufacturing. These include a significant temporary increase in the Annual Investment Allowance, from £25,000 to £250,000 for two years from 1 January 2013; £120 million for two further rounds of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative; an additional £350 million for the Regional Growth Fund; and increased funding of £140 million to help UKTI deliver an ambitious package of support to get SMEs exporting and attract more, high value investment into the UK.
	The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, the right hon. Member for Twickenham (Vince Cable), meets with the director general of the CBI every six to eight weeks to discuss current and forthcoming policy issues, including matters of importance to the manufacturing sector. Both the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State spoke at the CBI Annual Conference on 19 November. I myself met with CBI on 24 October and discussed a range of topics including support for mid-sized businesses, access to finance, and green growth all of which would impact on the manufacturing sector. In addition, officials from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills communicate regularly with their counterparts in the CBI on matters of mutual interest.

Manufacturing Industries

Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills if he will assess the implications for his policies of the findings of the survey by EEF and BDO of UK manufacturing, published on 3 December 2012 on (a) output and orders balances, (b) exports orders, (c) confidence levels within the manufacturing sector, (d) investment intentions, (e) future recruitment plans within manufacturing and (f) forecast growth in manufacturing output; if he will take steps to address the report's findings; and if he will make a statement.

Michael Fallon: The EEF in partnership with BDO produce a quarterly snapshot of trends in UK manufacturing. Their most recent report published on 3 December 2012 highlights the challenging business conditions caused by the eurozone crisis and slowing growth in emerging markets. However, the report also shows a positive balance of manufacturing companies planning to make new investments over the next year, as well as a rise in manufacturing employment in the first half of the year. BIS Ministers and officials communicate regularly with the EEF on a wide range of issues related to growing the manufacturing sector in the UK.
	The EEF welcomed announcements in the autumn statement aimed at supporting export and investment-led growth. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, my right hon. Friend the Member for Tatton (Mr Osborne), announced a number of measures on 5 December 2012, Official Report, columns 871-82, that will benefit UK manufacturing, including a significant temporary increase in the Annual Investment Allowance, from £25,000 to £250,000 for two years from 1 January 2013; £120 million for two further rounds of the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative; an additional £350 million for the Regional Growth Fund; and increased funding of £140 million to help UKTI deliver an ambitious package of support to get SMEs exporting and attract more, high value investment into the UK. There will also be an increase in the budget available for the Employer Ownership Pilot, from £250 million to £340 million overall to help businesses design and develop their own training programmes.
	Furthermore, investment in the entire manufacturing skills pipeline is a major priority for the Government—from early education through to further and higher education.
	We have a substantial programme of work in place to help young people to understand how studying the STEM disciplines at all levels leads to future career opportunities. The "See Inside Manufacturing" campaign has been a successful way of opening young people's eyes to the career opportunities available in engineering by showing them around some of the UK's leading industrial companies. We are also improving technical education at a young age by setting up a new generation of university technical colleges, with 33 so far having been announced. Finally, the Government's package of support for apprenticeships has resulted in almost 50,000 apprenticeship starts in manufacturing and engineering in 2010/11—up by nearly 30% on 2009/10.

Overseas Students: Syria

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what assistance he has made available to universities to enable students from Syria to continue their studies; and if he will make a statement.

David Willetts: The Department is working closely with its partners including Universities UK (UUK) to identify ways to enable students from Syria to continue their studies in the UK.
	The British Council has set up a hardship fund for Syrian students to provide financial assistance for people with Syria Higher Education Capacity Building Project scholarships to continue with their studies in the UK.
	The Higher Education International Unit at Universities UK and some UK universities have also joined a consortium of higher education institutions, led by the Institute of International Education, to provide scholarships for Syrian students and serve as host campuses for professors and senior scholars.
	The Department has also consulted HM Treasury (HMT) about the difficulty some Syrian students are facing in receiving payment from the Syrian banks through the Syrian embassy for educational purposes. HMT has issued licences to the banks concerned to allow them to deal with funds that are subject to an EU asset freeze under Council Regulation (EU) No. 36/2012 and transfer this into the student's personal account. Since the Syrian embassy is now closed, students have to send an application to HMT for the licence to be issued for the transfer of funds into their personal account. HMT have confirmed that most recent applicants have used their personal accounts.
	There is no scope in the existing student support legislation for the Government to provide support for Syrian students in the UK who are no longer receiving their funding from the Syrian Government. We recommend that universities and scholarship awarding bodies use their own discretion over fees, and their welfare and hardship funds to help support these students if possible. The Department is working closely with the Higher Education International Unit to monitor the situation.

Pay

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much was paid in (a) year end and (b) in-year bonuses to officials in his Department in each of the last two years.

Jo Swinson: Details of awards in the last two years for which information is available are detailed in the following table.
	
		
			  2010-11 2011-12 
			 Total number of staff 3,404 2,898 
			 Number of performance related payments 950 1,156 
			 Total amount paid (£) 1,126,780 1,588,649 
			 Number of in-year rewards 28 110 
			 Total amount paid (£) 13,750 26,290 
		
	
	An element of the BIS overall pay award for staff below the senior civil service (SCS) is allocated to non-consolidated, non-pensionable pay related to performance. There are two types of award:
	1. In-year awards that recognised strong performance in particularly demanding tasks or situations. In-year awards were suspended from 2010-11 and re-instated in November 2011;
	2. Annual performance awards, that reward staff based on their annual performance rating.
	These non-consolidated, non pensionable pay awards, are used to drive high performance and have to be earned each year against pre-determined targets and do not add to future pay bills. The payments made for both types of award are entirely related to staff performance.
	Performance awards for the SCS are part of the pay system across the whole senior civil service, and are used to reward high performance sustained throughout the year, based on judgements and about how well an individual has performed relative to their peers. The performance related pay scheme is designed to help drive high performance and support better public service delivery. Performance awards are non-consolidated and non-pensionable and do not add to future pay bill costs. The percentage of the pay bill set aside for performance- related awards for the SCS is based on recommendations from the independent Senior Salaries Review Body. In year awards are not paid to senior civil servants.

Post Offices: Essex

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many (a) post office branches within supermarkets and (b) stand-alone post office branches are located in (i) Southend and (ii) Essex; and if he will make a statement.

Jo Swinson: The information requested is an operational matter for Post Office Ltd. I have therefore asked Paula Vennells, the chief executive officer of Post Office Ltd, to respond directly to the hon. Member and a copy of her reply will be placed in the Libraries of the House.
	The hon. Member will be interested to note the Government requires Post Office Ltd to meet the strict access criteria that see, for example, 90% of the national population live within one mile of a post office branch, and to maintain a network of at least 11,500 post office branches. The number of retail outlets of the four largest supermarkets combined totals around 5,000, and neither singly nor collectively do they have a property portfolio able to meet the access criteria. Post Office Ltd's network will continue to consist of a wide range of independent, symbol group operators and multiple retailers who are best placed to provide access to Post Office services in a particular community.

Regional Growth Fund: Newton Abbot

Anne-Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many applications from Newton Abbot constituency were received for funding from the Regional Growth Fund in the latest period for which figures are available.

Michael Fallon: We do not disclose data at the scale of parliamentary constituency.
	1370 applications were received for the three bidding rounds of the Regional Growth Fund: of these, 139 were for projects or programmes located within the South West. However, bids can be tendered by businesses located in different areas to the location of the activity and by consortia of multiple private and public organisations. We do not hold complete location information on ail parties involved in a bid.
	While the impact of successful Regional Growth Fund projects is rarely limited to one constituency, two applications that described some or all of their activity in the Newton Abbot area were received. However, there were several applications that predicted that they would have employment impacts on the Newton Abbot constituency. There are several programme bids, for example submitted by Local Enterprise Partnerships, that could potentially generate activity in Newton Abbot.

Science: Finance

Gareth Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how much funding has been provided by his Department to the (a) Royal Society, (b) British Academy, (c) Royal Academy for Engineering, (d) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network, (e) British Science Association, (f) Engineering UK and (g) UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology in 2012-13 to date; and if he will make a statement.

Jo Swinson: holding answer 11 December 2012
	The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has made payments to the organisations listed during 2012-13 (1 April to 30 November) as follows:
	
		
			   £ 
			 (a) The Royal Society 22,454,957 
			 (b) The British Academy 16,195,234 
			 (c) Royal Academy of Engineering, RAE 5,381,312 
		
	
	
		
			 (d) STEMNET (The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network) 3,423,664 
			 (e) British Science Association (The British Association for the Advancement of Science) 971,419 
			 (f) Engineering UK Nil 
			 (g) UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Nil

Sick Leave

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 9 November 2012, Official Report, column 781-2W, on sick leave, what assessment he has made of the difference in the proportion of working days lost due to ill health between officers at AA grade and at SCS grade; and what assessment he has made of the use of mindfulness-based therapies in reducing the proportion of working days lost in his Department.

Jo Swinson: Although the figure for average working days lost for individuals at AA grade appears to be very high in some of the Department's more recently published sickness absence statistics, BIS only employs a very small number of people in this grade. For example, during the rolling period between April 2011 and March 2012 we had 23 members of staff at AA grade, representing approximately 0.7% of our total headcount. One or two cases of long-term sick leave amongst these employees would therefore distort the average working days lost figure significantly. In contrast, the average working days lost for administrative assistant (AA) employees during the rolling period between April 2010 and March 2011 was not significantly higher than that of senior civil servant (SCS) employees.
	BIS refers employees with health issues to an independent medical adviser (MA) who is an occupational health expert for advice on how best to support and facilitate their return to work. The actions and support available are relative to the individual circumstances of the case.

Students: Finance

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many English students have yet to receive a student finance payment for this academic year; and how many students had yet to receive a student finance payment on that date in each of the last five academic years.

David Willetts: Following the start of term, for the majority of university courses, official student finance statistics are published on the 14 October each year. The following table provides a breakdown of payments for each academic year since 2010 made to students domiciled in England entitled to maintenance support. Comparable figures prior to 2010 are not available. For 2012 up to date information as of 5 December is also provided.
	The Student Loans Company (SLC) is unable to process and prepare applications for payment without the required evidence and sends reminders requesting missing evidence from students and their sponsors. For students that apply near the start of term, or for those who have not yet supplied the required evidence of household income, SLC will do everything it can to ensure they get at least the basic non means-tested maintenance loan and tuition fee loan so that the student can start their course, and will pay any additional amounts due as soon as possible after the start of term.
	
		
			 Student finance payments made to Student Finance England applicants 
			 Thousand 
			 Description AY 2010/11 on 14 October 2010 AY 2011/12 on 14 October 2011 AY 2012/13 on 14 October 2012 AY 2012/13 on 5 December 2012 
			 Applications prepared for payment with a maintenance element: 826 865 860 942 
			 Of which first payment made to those studying away from the institution (medical course, placement etc) 32 16 17 19 
			 Of which attendance confirmed and first payment made 728 798 778 890 
			 Of which attendance confirmed and first payment will be made at term start date or is currently in the banking system 10 13 20 5 
			 Of which awaiting confirmation of attendance from the institution 44 36 41 27 
			 Of which attendance confirmed but first payment withheld(1) 12 2 2 1 
			 (1) Payments are withheld in exceptional cases for example where the bank details provided by the applicant have been found to be invalid or where the NINO has not yet been validated.

Sunday Trading

David Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what recent discussions he has had with (a) faith groups, (b) business leaders and (c) others on Sunday trading; and if he will make a statement.

Jo Swinson: The Government has consistently stated that the relaxation of Sunday trading regulations during the Olympic period was a temporary measure and that there are no plans permanently to relax these restrictions.
	The Government occasionally receives representations from businesses, faith groups and others on this issue but has not initiated any discussions. If any changes to the current regulations were envisaged, a full public consultation would be carried out.